kintu

KDH , i answered the OP the way i perceived his/her questions/queries.

Clegane , No offense i think you are thinking way too much.it will be alright if you have nothing to hide , no criminal record(does not mean they would not let you through),yeah , like CAN-USA mentioned.come loaded with proofs to support whatever you are gonna tell them.it will be fine.relax

Non Madame/monsieur , a lot of things matters and every case is unique.yes, being a canadian, one is at low risk of getting denied but however no one can guarantee.your frequency of visit ,purpose , ties to your country example job status , marital status are few things they consider sometime.

Canadians are not exempted from being fingerprinted. i lived and worked in MTL for 5 years before migrating and personally know many Canadians who got fingerprinted every time we went down to visit US

The only thing that he can do or will do is try to get a waiver for filing the ROC by proving that the marriage was in a good faith but did not work out.he might create , manipulate evidences that he left the US for so much time because of someone close being sick or also may accuse you of mental abuse that he could not bear and left.i mean , i am not sure.i am just writing whatever my mind is telling me to.if he had bad intentions in marrying you, Boy , he will try again but as other people said that his time away from US will be a negative factor.lastly,the comments are my personal and not meant to make you feel uneasy or anything.

Make sense. thank you !

It was because of huge delays in the I-751, we elected to apply for US citizenship at the earliest possible date, that just happens to be one year later plus or minus a couple of days, from the earliest possible date you can apply for the I-751. That we did.

With our N-400 application, all we could send in was a copy of that long expired conditional green card and that one year extension notice. That was accepted.

We did have to make an additional 450 mile round trip to our field office just two weeks before her scheduled interview with an infopass appointment as her one year extension notice would have been expired by then. To get an I-551 stamp in her foreign passport. But that was a wasted trip because her green card finally came in a week later. She could present her ten year card at her interview, only to have it taken away. She did ask if they could punch a hole in it to obsolete it for all the trouble we knew through to get it. But no way, they just tossed it into a trashcan.

wow , thank you for sharing , so the USCIS extends your GC for a year when you file for ROC ? ?

Kintu: I did not mean no harm or offense when I said you're complaining...I just wrote that because (to me at least) it sounded you were quiet furious about the length of the ROC process. Anyway, I did not mean to insult you, or anything like that, and never wanted to indicate that you have no idea of the other processes, indeed, I actually wanted to "remind" you of them. So anyway, please no hard feelings, I never meant to offend you, okay? Take care!

cool

AnotherLostSoul -

With all due respect to you , i never complained.i was not even aware of the fact that ROC takes that much time and so does the AOS (atleast what they say).i just said boy,if it will take a year, that is a long wait. that is not a complain ?who knows we get through fast the way we did in the AOS petition and I am very much aware about the siblings of the USC'S and the LPR'S in the queue waiting for years but that is irrelevent to this topic.i took your comment in good spirit.just wanted to clarify.thank you

thank you dave , steve and okalian , i appreciate your inputs guys , ok , so i would be filing at CSC but darn it , a year for ROC ? why are they taking that much time.i know no one can answer that or the application inflow could be a another reason.i got my GC in about 80 days after filing AOS and everything has been a cake walk for me so far.i hope the ROC would not take that long too.hey, just out of curiosity, so according to you guys,one can file for citizenship once you have been a LPR for 3 years (still married to the same USC)and it does not matter that your application for ROC is still pending ? or the wait for the ROC application is long which constitutes the total time of 3 years ? i hope you guys got my question.thank you again for feeding me with awesome knowledge.

This. Sometimes the removal-of-conditions (I-751) process takes a long time, occasionally more than 9 months... if that is the case you can apply for naturalization (N-400) even if the I-751 processing hasn't been completed yet - as long as you have been a permanent resident for (3 years minus 90 days).

o wow , i was not aware of that.so you mean , i can even file for N400 even i have been a conditional resident(2 years) who had filed for the removal of conditions and have been waiting for the time that constitutes 3 years. i.e 2 years as a CPR plus 9-12 months wait for the removal of conditions.correct me if i am wrong.thanks for your input.

that explains a lot! guess they used the K-1s as toilet paper and they didn't flush so well.

bwahahaha , u crack me up bud !

Good evening to all the fellow visa journey members,my question to you all is that does the two year period of me being a conditional resident counts towards the three year period that enables me to file for the Citizenship for being the spouse of a US citizen ? allow me to put my question in another way,i am aware of the fact that a spouse of a US citizen can apply for the citizenship in three years of being a permanent resident (if still married).do i have to remove conditions from my GC first and than wait for another 3 years which will be (5 years = 2 years as being a conditional resident + 3 years PR on unconditional GC ) ? or can i just apply after completing 3 years of being a GC holder (2 years as conditional PR plus 1 year with the 10 years validity GC making it a total of 3 years).my apologies for a fairly simple question that i could not put right

Thanks for your reading

guys , i am aware of the facts that you have mentioned but my question was do we really have to report it even if we are gonna move temporarily to a new place for few weeks and than moving permanently(which we will report) to a new place.how will they know that we have moved temporarily from the address that is on the file when we have nothing pending with them ? except when i will file for the ROC later in 2014.does the make sense ?

Hello fellows,

I have a simple question regarding the change of address. i got my conditional green card a couple of months ago and we have moved from the place where we used to live to my In-Laws house (a week ago) temporarily.as we are actively looking for a place to live.do we 'both' need to/have to report the address change?.let me again make my point clear that we will be living at my in-laws house for a month till we find a place of our own.shall we wait till we move to our own place and than report the address change or we have to do it every time we move.(even it is for few weeks) ? Last but not the least , please do share the online procedure of reporting the address change and do the both petitioner and the beneficiary has to report it or just the beneficiary ?

Thanks for reading

I am aware of that but i wanted to know if it is really necessary if one is moving temporarily for few weeks before changing address permanently .

Hello fellows,

Happy valentines day to you all. i have a simple question regarding the change of address. i got my conditional green card a couple of months ago and we have moved from the place where we used to live to my In-Laws house (a week ago) temporarily.as we are actively looking for a place to live.do we 'both' need to/have to report the address change?.let me again make my point clear that we will be living at my in-laws house for a month till we find a place of our own.shall we wait till we move to our own place and than report the address change or we have to do it every time we move.(even it is for few weeks) ? Last but not the least , please do share the online procedure of reporting the address change and do the both petitioner and the beneficiary has to report it or just the beneficiary ?

Thanks for reading

Folks , a very happy new year. this is my question for you all. the expiration date on my conditional green card is NOV 28 , 2014 and i have been married for about 10 months now.when can i file for the ROC ? is it which ever date comes first -

1) 90 days prior to the expiration date of the GC

2) 90 days prior to our second marriage anniversary

i will expand my question - we got married on Feb 23,2012 and so our second marriage anniversary would be in Feb,2014 which is almost 9 months prior to the expiration date of my green card.

can one file according to the point 2 of this thread or it can only be done according to the point 1

thanks for reading and apologies if the question confuses you.

I make $32,400 annually, and I have 2 children that partially depend from me,this is without adding the child support. Is this enough to show proof of income?

yes it is.for a family of 4(household size)two kids,beneficiary and yourself.you are fine as far as you exceeds $28000 mark.that is my personal experience.

Hello,

I have an interesting question. I am about to file for citizenship (based on being permanent resident longer than 5 years). I’ve entered US on K1 visa, got married, got my two year card and shortly after filing for ROC due to circumstances (my wife’s affair) we got separated. Marriage was entered in a good faith and responsibility for divorce was taken by my ex-wife (US citizen). I do have all paperwork to prove affair etc. 10 year card was received couple months before we got officially divorced. USCIS was not informed about separation and it was pointless to let them know about the divorce after card was received. This was not done in attempt to hide something from the government, but because my ex-wife moved to the other side of the country and refused to come down for a court hearing. And as far as I can remember I was not able to file for a waiver not until we were officially divorced. At this point I am remarried to a different woman and have no idea where my ex-wife is. So my question is: what are the potential problems I am facing with USCIS caused by my divorce if I am applying on the basis of being in the US longer than 5 years

you are not going to have any problems as you are applying for the citizenship on the basis of being a LPR for 5 or more years.chill

Can somebody give me some more help please?

do take sealed transcripts from your school showing how many courses have you done and how many are left,which proves that you will return back to Finland to complete your studies.also,if you have already paid the fees for the future semesters,bring the receipts along to the interview.getting a B/2 is share luck. i personally know at least 6-7 people out of few who fulfilled all the conditions what they need to have to get a B/2 but they could not get it and few of them who even lied on their visa application,provided fraudulent documents and still were able to get the B/2.the political relations between the US and your Native country has a lot to do too.to conclude, there is no hard and fast rule to get the B/2."you make your own destiny" does not apply here. your luck would . good luck

We've been told that there will be a decision on dec 10.. when my husband called last nov 28.. now hubby called today and the guy he talked to cannot confirmed what the guy told him when he called last time..so what the heck???? we are waiting for almost 9 months now and they gave us another service request its just pissing me off!

although my experience with the USCIS has been a great one but i still like to stand by your side.you know, USCIS is such a big deal and given that this is a country of immigrants.i feel there coordination amongst themselves is average/poor as the work load is humongous but yeah,people would expect it to be fair for all considering they are making decisions on people's lives but all we can do is wait as the book says "immigration is a privilege not a right". i hope your wait ends soon.god bless

Hello everyone! I have a question.

I have a permanent address and a present address. I also do have previous addresses.

I had 2 previous addresses, the first one was 10 months and second one was 4 months. 10 months as a bed spacer and 4 months as a tenant too. now 4months on my present address as a bed spacer too. I want to use my permanent address in all the forms im going to fill out. So how should i fill out the G325A saying list address within 5 years. so if i put my present address first, how am i going to date my permanent address in "from" and "to" box.. and can i also use my permanent address in my Letter of intent to marry" instead of my present address? How am i going to use my permanent address so that all the correspondence that a beneficiary will receive would go to my permanent address? can i just not put my present address besides im just a bed spacer or what?

im kinda confused. all comments will be appreciated. TIA!

No offense but thank you for confusing :-)

1)I personally do not have any solution for this thread.

2)Seems as if your company and the client are defrauding both the Governments.

3)Getting a letter from the Client stating that your company is working them for free is only gonna raise eyebrows at the consulate.

4)i feel sorry for your situation.

5)As commonly said, never do Pro-bono work for a profit-making organization.

6)I hope the consulate let you through.good luck

To make a long story short. I haven't filed AOS for my wife yet and she has been here for about 6 months. I actually have everything ready, just need a translation of her birth certificate and the packet will be ready to go. Anyhow, since she does have a social security number and we got married, I was able to file my 2 previous tax returns as joint returns and was able to get about 3 checks in refund from the government.

Problem is that me and my wife's name are one the check. When I went to cash it, I was told that in order to cash it, my wife and I would need to have a joint account. When I said sure, why not, i'll make my account a joint account, the teller told me that I would need to bring my wife's state ID or drivers license in order to make/open a joint account. Well, how is my wife going to get a stae ID/Driver's Lincense without even being a resident. Why would the government double endorse our checks if they knew my wife isn't a resident yet. ugh! Don't know what to do. Is my only option to cash the checks, is to wait till my wife is granted her green card so that she can be able to apply for a state ID?

i think,since your wife has a social security,she is eligible for a state ID. you need her PP,SSN and one or two govt.issued letter showing her address in the USA.